"It looked better than I thought it would," she said. "I think I'm going to hang it up in my bedroom."

At The Council for the Arts building, the exhibit "Life in the Midst of War," a collection of colored pencil portraits by Amy Lindenberger, were displayed. The art depicted Civil War soldiers and life during that time period.

Colleen Koslick, Chambersburg, was examining a painting and the detail when a volunteer asked her if she would be interested in purchasing a print.

"I have a Civil War room," Koslick said, laughing. "I don't have an inch of spare room for it."

Koslick, who said she started collecting books and artifacts in the late '80s, started visiting battlefields and becoming a 'Civil War buff.'

Through her travels, she said the most emotional stop was Andersonville Civil War Prison.

"Seeing all those graves back there was tough," she said.

But her journeys have not all been so hard. She said that Chickamauga battlefield was 'beautiful.'

"If you can call battlefields beautiful, it is," she said.

Koslick also has a Civil War flag preserved at home under glass, with stains from battle.

"If I was born in another time, it would have been during the Civil War," she said.